Re: User similarity in Mahout

2016-01-03 Thread Peter K
Thank you very much, Pat. Really appreciate it. I think what you've described is exactly what I need. I'm going to try Mahout-Samsara, it looks promising. I originally wanted to include some hybrid method (user + item based similarity) but this cross cooccurrence might be the solution. Thanks a

Re: User similarity in Mahout

2016-01-03 Thread Pat Ferrel
Your problem will be that there isn’t enough cooccurrence between users since, well, how many jobs can any one user apply for and how likely is another user to apply for the same or overlapping jobs? The JDs have a short lifetime and so don’t lend themselves to the older single action recommende

User similarity in Mahout

2016-01-03 Thread Peter K
Hi all, I'm trying to implement a recommender based on Mahout to recommend jobs for users. There are 2 actions - an user applied for a job or viewed a job. In terms of weight I'm using 5 for an apply and 2 for a view. Now I'm trying to find best user similarity to capture these relations. Fo